The iPINIONS Journal

This affair should give a whole new meaning (and feeling) to Brokeback Mountain News and Politics Read more.

The South African Large Telescope (SALT) Observatory Despite all of the good things happening in Africa these days, media reports invariably focus on the blights of famine, disease, corruption and violence. Therefore, I take great pride in sharing news of a recent event which marked a stellar achievement for Africa by universal standards. The event… Read more.

In this article, published just 7 weeks ago, I predicted that: “Despite a rate of growth that is the envy of the world, China’s economy is, in fact, a ticking time bomb. Because the 1.3 billion people providing cheap labour to fuel its boom represent mushrooming fuel demands that portend its bust.” I also stated… Read more.

Preliminary report from National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) officials indicates that this fatal crash may have been caused by a crack in the right wing of the aircraft. But this report comes as little consolation to those who are now suffering unimaginable grief this holiday season. I pay heart-felt condolence to all Bahamian families and… Read more.

I publish today in solidarity with members of the Transport Workers Union (TWU) whose long-simmering grievances with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) finally compelled them to take strike action in NYC yesterday. I have no doubt that workers everywhere can relate to the TWU’s well-founded concerns about Pension Benefits, Fair Wages, and Health Insurance and… Read more.

“I am not a drug trafficker….I am a coca grower. I cultivate coca leaf, which is a natural product. I do not refine [it into] cocaine, and neither cocaine nor drugs have ever been part of the Andean culture.” [Bolivian President-Elect Evo Morales] This quote alone should explain why so many poor, indigenous and politically… Read more.

Political opportunism is de rigeur in Washington. And the more politicians declare that “this is an issue too serious to politicize”, the more that issue becomes politicized. Therefore, it is not at all surprising that debates over the role (and fate) of American soldiers in Iraq or on national security are distinguished more by political… Read more.

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“Attacking people on the basis of their race, their appearance, their ethnicity, is totally unacceptable and should be repudiated by all Australians irrespective of their own background and their politics.” This was Prime Minister John Howard’s sensible reaction last weekend, after Australians were shocked, shocked, by the KKK-style beating white locals gave a few non-white… Read more.

Even partisan critics of President Bush’s leadership on Iraq had to have been impressed, even if politically resentful, by television images of Iraqis praising and hailing him as liberator as they flocked to polling stations to cast their votes in yesterday’s historic election. Although, the inspiration these images provided had to have been diminished ever… Read more.